The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-17
THE TEMPERANCE WORKERS
Opening Session of the Woman's Ma
tional Christian Temperance Union.
Encouraging Report from the President. Miss
Willard. Followed BY an Evening Meet
ing, Developing Much Enthusiasm.

Christian Temperance Union met IN Watkins's
Hall at o'clock. with representatives present
from almost every State and Territory.
For the first time, Indian Territory
has sent its president Upon the plat
form were seated Mrs. Judge Thompson,
% Hilisboro O.. mother of the crusade in 1888;
Pundta Ramabai, vice-president of the Worlds
W. G. L. O., for India, and the officers of the
national Union. The hall is decorated with
beautiful banners and flowers. Mrs. Hannah
Whithall Smith. lately returned from England.
opened the convention with Bible reading on
~Love." AT its close Miss Willard gave the
motto for the days to come: There Is Nothing
Inexorable but Love" The entire front of the
platform was lined with representatives. OF the
press, among whoa were Miss Catherine Cole,
of the New Orleans Picsyune and Mrs. NJ.
Helen Crane, OF the New York World. The
hall was crowded with members of the conven-
ton and visitors, and there was not even stand
ing room in the outer hall. Perfect quietness
prevailed while Miss Willard gave selections
from her annual address. Mrs. Lide Merri-
wether, president OF Tennessee presided The
address frequently interrupted with ap-
plause. The following Is a synopsis of the
address
Forty States and Territories sent four
hundred representatives to the metropolis of
Southern education. The Northern home
keepers have crossed Mason and Dixons line to
clfIsp hands with their sisters. No surer token
tbat weare one nation has been given since
1864" Sixty four different suggestions of work
are tabulated under the heads of prevention,
educational, evangestic, social and legal work
The fact that no State union 10 bound by the
action OF the national society emphasized.
There are not enough anti-saIoon Republicans
at the North" said Miss Willard. Ito carry pro-
hloition In q single State that is now struggling
to secure it, enough anti-saloon Democrats
at the South. as has been proved in this memor-
able year of our constitutions al defeats but there
tam in hath 70 oEn
possession or the government and give US
tiona prohibition in the party OF the future.
which is to be the party of God. Women
should use their utmost influence and. wherever
they have the school ballot, they should use
that TO engraft the kindergarten upon the public
school. Where this cannot be done let the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union establish
one; but above all. let every mother study the
system and employ it in her own home Miss
Lois L. Smith, of Rhode Island, one OF the
svaneelistic veterans, has proposed that we dis
frict the Nation, giving to each subdivision
leader of her own. hope her plan may be
carefully considered. But my heart turns with
tender love and blessing toward the church of
Christ and prays for the time when her own
hallowed ministries shall be SO pervasive that
outside societies shall no longer prevail, when
oar legal works shall broaden into Christian cit
3zenshlp, our educational efforts into public
klndergart ems and industrial schools, where
hygiene shall be studied earliest and longest
taught; when the church shall welcome to all
her councils, lay upon our heads her consecrat-
Ing nands, and claim for her own voice that it
speaks for Christ.
Eve must work out the manifest destiny of
the municipal ballot for women a means of
enforcing prohibtory law. and emphasize more
strongly Than before the national amendment
which shall remove all legal disabilities from
the dso ghtsrs of the Republic. 1 believe, also.
tnat the prohibition party should strongly state
as I.ss ultimate AIM two amendments to the
n'.tlonal Constitution-the first, calling for
Universal prohibition; the second, enfranchisiny
wonderland that it should carefully study the
platforms of the labor reformers. both Knights
of Labor and Changers, that it may incorporate
SEe principles of arbitration and cooperation
into its own with any others that seems to be
based upon Christian ethics and Christian brother
hood: Among these is most assuredly involved
equal wages well equal moral standards for
women and men; heavier penalties for crimes
against women. and the raising of the age of
protection to eighteen years.
THE Womans Temperance Publication AS
ISOLATION last year published 80. 000 900 pages.
this year over $4,000. 900. Our publishing corps
includes seventy6ve names, five of which are
editorial. The total issues Of the Union Signal
for the year were 1854, 600 copies. an aver
age of 81, 423 copies per week. Our four period
icals have combined circulation of over 50-
600 copies, and we have printed over 30, 900, 900
pages temperance literature during the year.
A womans' lecture bureau IS being
tablished in charge OF the national president
and corresponding secretary, at 661 La Sale
street, Chicago. with good prospects of great
comrades the necessity for more thoroughly
sgani1ing our press department headquarters, SO
that our Associated Press kilograms, bulletins.
paragraphs, etc, shall cover the whole country
ana be regularly issued.
''The largest of our enterprises, the Worlds
Wonan's Christian Temperance Union, contiu-
ues to hold on its way rejoicing Mrs. Leavitt
does not think of coming home yet She will
thoroughly explore India. planting our stations
at all eligible points: will thence to Madagas
gar, Africa. Asia Minor. and know not where
besides. We must devise liberal things for this
work We must at this convention, arrange a !
definite financial basis. British sisters
have done. that our National Woman's Chris
fian Temperance Union may be related to the
Worlds Christian Temperance Union
IN ms nv dan link
which alone can attach to the putting engine
that has started on its regular world-around |
trips. The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Ohio has already arranged for a new |
department in the interest of peace. This is |
strictly german to temperance work. for moth
ing increases intemperance like war, and moth
Ing tends to war like iuLempersncs We ought /
to rejoice in the development Of athletic ports |
for women well men, since whatever |
conduces to the natural tonic and stimulus of |
outdoor life leads away from all narcotic drugs. |
the future of the National Temperance Hos
piral located in Chicago. is assured. AS tenn
psrancs people must no longer leave our inter-
aBsts undefended in Washington. 1 suggest that
rhs convention invite the Sons of Temperance,
Good Templars. and Prohibition party to
binA with US in the effort to engage Christian
temperance lawyer at Washington who shall |
watch our interests as carefully as Louis Schade
81 Co. do those of the breweries and distillers.
The National Teachers Association made to
my surprise, more considerable response to
request for the indoctrination of the young in
the principles of total abstinence and purity
than does the Sunday school teachers tri-
ennial convention. The secular teachers ap-
pointed committee to consider these great
questions. and report at their next years
meeting. 1 have always bsen opposed
TO secret societies. and never more
than to day. They are relic
Of mediaeval times, and destined to become ex-
tinct. But the GOOD Tenn plars and the Knights
Of Labor have so much In them that is praise
worthy, their secretsm is nominal and
their purposes so helpful. that it has always
seemed to me they formed exceptions to the
general rule, believe they will not always be
Eecret even in name but that this usef nj feat-
TIRE will fade away and merge into the light of
common day. 1t is a satisfaction to note the
triumph of the better element in the Knights of
Labor over the Anarchists and the Socialists
The growing influence OF Mr.. Powderly and the
tearlessness of his uttsrances and Mr.. Litch-
mans concerning temperance.
HRut. in thasa DAYS. We feed and clothe the